Let's have a little fun in the wayback machine:
The Oslo Accords in 1994 asked Israel to give up the Gaza Strip for "peace," Under President Sharon in 2004, the Israeli settler's were moved out. The Palestinians had the Gaza strip lock, stock and barrel. What did they do with it?
They sent missiles to their neighbor rather then building roads, schools and supermarkets, the Gazan Government attacked. Hamas woke the tiger up in 2008 - 2009 (and of course, Andrew Sullivan had no qualms about the missiles flying into Israel, just the idea of Israel defending itself was obscene in his mind).
With the Obama Administration foreign policy based on Nixonianism (and weakness abroad), other countries filled the vacuum. hence the tri-partate agreement. World War I redux, coming to Gulf states soon.
Now let's look at the current situation:
There are 22 Arab States where the Palestinians can call home. They can get out of the Refugee camps and make their home anywhere. The United Nations contributes to their cause, the United States contributes and Israel contributes.
With all those monies, a stable society could have been built and trade agreements could have been created. But it did not.
Let's read the charter of Hamas:
Article Thirty-Two:
World Zionism, together with imperialistic powers, try through a studied plan and an intelligent strategy to remove one Arab state after another from the circle of struggle against Zionism, in order to have it finally face the Palestinian people only. Egypt was, to a great extent, removed from the circle of the struggle, through the treacherous Camp David Agreement. They are trying to draw other Arab countries into similar agreements and to bring them outside the circle of struggle.
The Islamic Resistance Movement calls on Arab and Islamic nations to take up the line of serious and persevering action to prevent the success of this horrendous plan, to warn the people of the danger eminating from leaving the circle of struggle against Zionism. Today it is Palestine, tomorrow it will be one country or another. The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.
Leaving the circle of struggle with Zionism is high treason, and cursed be he who does that. "for whoso shall turn his back unto them on that day, unless he turneth aside to fight, or retreateth to another party of the faithful, shall draw on himself the indignation of Allah, and his abode shall be hell; an ill journey shall it be thither." (The Spoils - verse 16). There is no way out except by concentrating all powers and energies to face this Nazi, vicious Tatar invasion. The alternative is loss of one's country, the dispersion of citizens, the spread of vice on earth and the destruction of religious values. Let every person know that he is responsible before Allah, for "the doer of the slightest good deed is rewarded in like, and the does of the slightest evil deed is also rewarded in like."
The Islamic Resistance Movement consider itself to be the spearhead of the circle of struggle with world Zionism and a step on the road. The Movement adds its efforts to the efforts of all those who are active in the Palestinian arena. Arab and Islamic Peoples should augment by further steps on their part; Islamic groupings all over the Arab world should also do the same, since all of these are the best-equipped for the future role in the fight with the warmongering Jews.
And now let's read the Charter of Fatah (of the West Bank):
CHAPTER ONE
The Movement's Essential Principles
Article (1) Palestine is part of the Arab World, and the Palestinian people are part of the Arab Nation, and their struggle is part of its struggle.
Article (2) The Palestinian people have an independent identity. They are the sole authority that decides their own destiny, and they have complete sovereignty on all their lands.
Article (3) The Palestinian Revolution plays a leading role in liberating Palestine.
Article (4) The Palestinian struggle is part and parcel of the world-wide struggle against Zionism, colonialism and international imperialism.
Article (5) Liberating Palestine is a national obligation which necessities the materialistic and human support of the Arab Nation.
Article (6) UN projects, accords and resolutions, or those of any individual which undermine the Palestinian people's right in their homeland are illegal and rejected.
Article (7) The Zionist Movement is racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organisation and method.
Article (8) The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally to colonialism and international imperialism.
Article (9) Liberating Palestine and protecting its holy places is an Arab, religious and human obligation.
Article (10) Palestinian National Liberation Movement, "FATEH", is an independent national revolutionary movement representing the revolutionary vanguard of the Palestinian people.
Article (11) The crowds which participate in the revolution and liberation are the proprietors of the Palestinian land.
Goals
Article (12) Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.
Article (13) Establishing an independent democratic state with complete sovereignty on all Palestinian lands, and Jerusalem is its capital city, and protecting the citizens' legal and equal rights without any racial or religious discrimination.
Article (14) Setting up a progressive society that warrants people's rights and their public freedom.
Article (15) Active participation in achieving the Arab Nation's goals in liberation and building an independent, progressive and united Arab society.
Article (16) Backing up all oppressed people in their struggle for liberation and self-determination in order to build a just, international peace.
Method
Article (17) Armed public revolution is the inevitable method to liberating Palestine.
Article (18) Entire dependence on the Palestinian people which is the pedestal forefront and on the Arab Nation as a partner in the fight, and realising actual interaction between the Arab Nation and the Palestinian people by involving the Arab people in the fight through a united Arab front.
Article (19) Armed struggle is a strategy and not a tactic, and the Palestinian Arab People's armed revolution is a decisive factor in the liberation fight and in uprooting the Zionist existence, and this struggle will not cease unless the Zionist state is demolished and Palestine is completely liberated.
Article (20) Achieving mutual understanding with all the national forces participating in the armed struggle to attain the national unity.
Article (21) Revealing the revolutionary nature of the Palestinian identity at the international level, and this does not contradict the everlasting unity between the Arab Nation and the Palestinian people.
Article (22) Opposing any political solution offered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupation in Palestine, as well as any project intended to liquidate the Palestinian case or impose any international mandate on its people.
Article (23) Maintaining relations with Arab countries with the objective of developing the positive aspects in their attitudes with the proviso that the armed struggle is not negatively affected.
Article (24) Maintaining relations with all liberal forces supporting our just struggle in order to resist together Zionism and imperialism.
Article (25) Convincing concerned countries in the world to prevent Jewish immigration to Palestine as a method of solving the problem.
Article (26) Avoiding attempts to exploit the Palestinian case in any Arab or international problems and considering the case above all contentions.
Article (27) "FATEH" does not interfere with local Arab affairs and hence, does not tolerate such interference or obstructing its struggle by any party.
Now, please note from Hamas you have this:
And note this from Fatah:
This is what the Left supports? (Trust me, listen to Pacifica radio and it's All Israel's Fault, All the Time). This is what Andrew Sullivan supports (with no outcry from his protege).
You cannot have Peace with someone whose sole goal is to try to kill you. Any American President (or Republican nominee) who talks of a "two State Solution," will get a ding from me.
When Israel had the 1967 borders, the Arabs wanted it destroyed. When Israel won the Six day war, the Arab countries wanted to destroy Israel. When Israel gave up the Gaza strip, those same Arab countries stood by (and the Left remained silent) as missiles flew into civilian homes. Now that the Palestinians ask for the 67 borders (after almost getting 90% of what they wanted in 2000, but declined), it is time to wake up to reality.
NO MORE TWO STATE SOLUTION.
There are 22 countries for the Palestinians to live in, choose one.
Let me conclude with a quote said by two Israeli Prime Ministers, One from the Left, the other from the Right, Golda Meir and Bibi Netanyahu:
"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence, If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel. "
My question: Knowing what you know now, what type of peace agreement would you make for Israel?
(h/t: Gary Aminoff and the SFVRC who had Dr. Martin Shearman speak).
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